• One Piece Volumes 12 and 105
• Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
• A green moleskin notebook
• The Art of Bravely Default

I feel like these make up the majority of my posts, but hey I enjoy sharing the new books I get. In this case I got two volumes of One Piece now meaning I have the first twenty volumes of the series and the most recent twelve. I love the art direction of Bravely Default, a 3DS jrpg from Square Enix, and found the art book for a decent price.

Currently Reading: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Decided to do a re-read of The Echo Wife while to get Acceptance. Not sure if I'll start reading Acceptance after I finish Echo Wife since I'm into the mood for some good fantasy stories rather than the sci-fi/horror of the southern reach. If anyone has any recommendations for good medieval/Arthurian style fantasy novels, I would love to see them.

Currently Playing(Reading?): Misericorde Volume One
Misericorde is an indie visual novel about a murder that happened in an abbey during the 1400s. I adore the story so so so much. This has the most I've been engrossed in a visual novel; the story is great, the music is amazing, the art style is wonderful.

• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• One Piece Volumes 16, 17, 20
• Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• Hellboy Weird Tales Volumes 1 and 2

Set of books, manga, and comics I collected over the past few days. The jump of from vol 17 to 20 for One Piece was because I already owned volumes 18 and 19 from a library book sale ages ago. Never read Stardust before, but I have read and really enjoyed everything else of Neil Gaiman’s and look forward to reading this one. I love Echo Wife and this was bought for a reread rather than a first read. Highly recommend Echo Wife for people that like stories about trying to cover up a murder.

Currently reading: Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Finished reading Acceptance a bit ago and just jumped into Authority and so far I’m loving it so much more than the first book of the trilogy.

I finished two books last night, one is 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, which is so much less douchey than it sounds. Seriously, it's so good. I'll be thinking about the quadrants of time spent, emotional bank accounts, and personality ethic vs character ethic for a long time. And trust. It's seriously just so very good.

The other is Sarah Gailey's recent from last year, The Echo Wife. Holy shit this book was fucked up. In some ways it felt like the gonzo fictional version of Hope Jahren's excellent scientific memoir, Lab Girl, another recent favorite I also read over a new year a few years back. And in other ways it was a dark several hundred pages exploration of being abused and finding agency. Yet it was subtle, beautiful, and heartbreaking in ways that have nothing to do with abuse. And the central premise, and what would have been the ethical concern in any other story, is like, not actually the point, which was a pretty fascinating trick to have pulled off, which they did, holy shit. Recommended with a whole lot of content warnings.